Eastport/South Manor Secondary School
Manorville, New York

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The building plan is organized around the critical functional relationships of the program elements, which enhances a variety of teaching approaches for students in grade level groupings of 7-8 and 9-12. To reduce the overall scale of the building mass and to create the feel of an academic village, the program core academic components are arranged in subgroups and set into smaller connected buildings around two outdoor courtyards and support current/future educational programs. High school and junior high core academic areas are separate but adjacent. Similar relationships are held with separate student cafeterias, music rehearsal, and physical education facilities.

Major community areas and visitor/community entrances are organized along a dramatic central pedestrian way. “Main Street” is the thread, which links the individual building components. This unifying architectural element allows easy and secured access for students and the community to the library, guidance and administrative offices, the gymnasiums, and auditorium, which are accessed through the circular rotunda. Located at the heart of this composition, the library and the data and video network operations center reinforces the importance of learning. To the south is the core academic groupings with a backbone of science labs that are linked and directly accessible from each of the three neighborhoods. To the north, the arts, performing arts, and athletic facilities, are located in proximity to the community entrance and parking. The student cafeterias are organized along a secondary street to the east and visually connect to an outdoor student-centered courtyard shared with the library.

The building is designed with a structural steel frame, masonry cavity walls, and aluminum curtain wall windows. Exterior walls incorporate brick veneer, split face and smooth cast concrete masonry, and cast stone bull nose belt courses in a banded arrangement. Tuscan-style columns, an articulated aluminum cornice, and steeply pitched metal roof complement and reinforce the classical design. Interior materials include decorative columns with brick bases, scored concrete masonry, gypsum board bulkheads, fabric wrapped acoustical panels, glass block wall accents, and acoustical tile ceilings. Porcelain tile flooring is in the public spaces, carpet in the instructional areas for acoustical consideration, and vinyl composition tile in the science labs.
Heating and cooling is provided by a fan-powered variable air volume system with hot water heat and chilled water cooling for increased flexibility and users comfort.

The Local Area Network consists of a fiber optic cable infrastructure. In addition to computer and video monitors in each classroom, there are four computer classrooms, a CAD lab, and two computer-based technology education classrooms. Large screen video projectors are located in the science labs, lecture rooms, and auditorium.

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